Our daughter went back to college a couple of days ago. Before she left she was inspired to paint something for her apartment. I had all the supplies she needed, including a 20″x24″ canvas. She painted the canvas and then added the flowers, collage style. It was so much fun to see this project bloom

I’ve been organizing a group art show for our church and yesterday afternoon I got a call from a friend’s mother who said her husband wanted to be in the show. Could I come over and take a look? So I went over and looked at his beautiful enamal work. Wow, I thought, this would

This is a little story for Denise, whose son left for college today. I hope it makes her strong and makes her smile. A story about a 98 year old woman. 98 and no enemies. A human interest story. Toward the end of Sunday service, the minister asked, “How many of you have forgiven your

I have all my paintings out of storage in preparation for the show I’m having next week at Christ Church Cathedral Cloisters Gallery next week and this is what my living room looks like. It looks like this about 3 times a year, before each show. A friend of mine mentioned to me that she

I am soooo happy to have this painting done! It is a painting of our church, St. John the Divine Epsicopal Church, in Houston, Texas, which I’ll donate to the church’s Silent Auction next month. I’ve had this painting in my head for months and I finally got around to painting it. I’ll also make

I got good news in the mail yesterday, my SASE came back from the National Society of Artists’ 26th Annual National Juried show with notification that three of my paintings were accepted into the show. I have just started entering shows recently and getting that envelope in the mail was exciting. I entered five paintings,

I just love painting buildings. Structures of any kind. I wonder if it’s because a building built by man leaves some kind of imprint on the landscape? To me the story of the human presence must be more interesting than the beauty of a natural setting. I wouldn’t have guessed that, but why else can’t

I am back to painting barns after a nice vacation to Maine. Ready to get back to some familiar territory, painting things I’m not used to painting should probably be as easy as painting familiar things, after all, we just “paint what we see”, right? But it wasn’t easy at all to paint unfamiliar things